Lisa Bohannon, at work in the Unified Court System law library, is a participant in a long-term cancer prevention study. Bohannon, a principal court analyst and a 14-year CSEA member, has been a longtime supporter of the American Cancer Society through its annual Relay For Life event and is motivated by a need to contribute to research in the hope that more can be learned about cancer. She, like many, has lost family members to cancer.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Kathy Follet, along with a committee, helped the compressed pay period program expand at her agency.
From left, New York Labor-Religion Coalition Director Brian O'Shaughnessy, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, Albany Catholic Diocese Bishop Howard Hubbard, author Kim Bobo, and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi attend a ceremony opening the 40-Hour FAST for Social Justice. This year's FAST focused attention on wage theft. Hubbard and Iannuzzi co-chair the Labor-Religion Coalition.
How employers are stealing from workers, and how we can help stop it. Author and community organizer Kim Bobo brought her message to Albany to help the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York State Labor Religion Coalition begin its annual 40-hour fast for social justice. Bobo, founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice, has published a book, Wage Theft in America: Why millions of working Americans are not getting paid and what we can do about it.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and staff joined correction officers and other union members as well as concerned citizens at a recent rally to save Hudson Correctional Facility from closing. A state plan to close Hudson and three other upstate New York correctional facilities has met with strong opposition from workers, political leaders and community members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Central Region President Colleen Wheaton offers support to Groton, NY, Schools Unit President Sheldon Clark over his recent firing. Clark, an 18-year bus driver with a safe driving record, was unjustly fired by the board in January following a December, 2007, incident in which the bus received minor scratch damage to its cargo door. No one was injured and the students on the bus were unaware of the incident.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Treasurer Joe McMullen speaks out for affordable prescription drugs and taxpayer savings as part of a news conference in Albany, NY. The event brought together an unprecedented alliance that includes the American Association of Retired People (AARP), New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Business and Labor Coalition of New York (BALCONY), the Public Employees Federation (PEF), Consumers Union, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and the Center for Medical Consumers. The alliance is calling on state officials to make prescription drugs more affordable and accessible to New Yorkers through marketing and purchasing reform. CSEA has long supported the idea of using the state's buying power to negotiate the best possible prices for prescription drugs.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rockland County Local Women's Committee members and Rockland County Local President Fritz Ernest at Helen Hayes Hospital in Haverstraw with one of the three portable DVD players they donated to the spinal cord injury unit at the hospital in Haverstraw, NY. Patients from throughout the Northeast who have spinal cord injuries get quality care at Helen Hayes, a state run hospital that employs hundreds of CSEA members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) New York City Local President Vincent Martusciello leads union members in a protest against closing the Pyramid Reception Center in the South Bronx, NY. The juvenile facility was spared, as were other such facilities, but the 2008 state budget's plan for other facilities, especially in central New York, will affect some union members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Health Therapy Aide Kenneth Ricketts disarmed a gun-toting consumer at a Kingsboro Psychiatric Center residential home in Brooklyn, NY, an incident that has CSEA calling for more security.